I don't think you can add polls once a thread has been created. Also, the poll would be open to anyone so you'd just get random plebs voting on it who had no interest in the pool.


I'll probably just keep it to £25 as to not price people out of it. We won't have as long to organise it/drum up interest as well so I'm not sure if more people will join over the Premier League.

I like these.


Maybe some sort of an actual nuke bomb would be better:





But the nuke seems a bit ominous to me though. I think it will confuse a lot of users too, especially newcomers who aren't aware of 'nuking' here. I can imagine all the 'what the hell is this symbol' threads haha.


Haha. I like 'em. I think the fedora one is too difficult to make out though.


Really like these. If the chevron ones aren't chosen I think they should be used for something else. Maybe give badges out for very high amounts of merit as well. I mentioned in another thread today that maybe some sort of additional demi-rank or other such title or badge could be given to people who earn large amounts of merit. 1000, 2000, 4000 etc. I think people who contribute a lot of meritable posts should stand out from the rest or be rewarded in such fashion.



Like these as well.

You will only download things that are displayed. If you set it to disable signatures then they wont be shown, so won't be downloaded. Same goes for avatars. I'm sure browsers have some settings or extensions to block images and other such things from being needlessly downloaded to conserve even more data.


I know you're mostly joking, but I think the time has come to have a new rank after Legendary now. Legendary had become far too common. I think legendary should be set at 960 activity and the new rank should be 1920 in following with the doubling of activity for each rank. Maybe some sort of additional demi-rank or other such title or badge could be given to people who earn large amounts of merit. 1000, 2000, 4000 etc. I think people who contribute a lot of meritable posts should stand out from the rest or be rewarded in such fashion.

I'll probably just stick to the £25 one for this season for the Premier League. Too late and too much hassle to get everyone to agree to £50 and don't want any users to drop out. Maybe I'll double it to £50 for next. We'll see. We can do a Champions League one as well for another £25 though. Would have done one last season for it but left it a bit too late and didn't really want to do it with only a few players. Once the Premier League starts I'll open up a thread about the Champions League pool. Will give us over a month to recruit people then. 

As it stands you'll probably be waiting somewhere between never and forever to get your account back. I agree the excessive waiting/accounts not being recovered at all is unacceptable and something needs to be done about it, but this probably isn't going to happen anytime soon. Besides, looking at this post below I think your account should be put to the bottom of the pile:


If you haven't got a signed message or pgp then I would just forget about the account because there's little to no chance of you getting it back.

You deleted it by mistake? You'll have to contact an admin about it as they're the only people who can restore it, but does it show up in a cache online anywhere? Maybe you could find it that way, or was it some sort of post that needed to be second like a follow up post etc so needs to be restored directly? Either way, contact theymos and/or cyrus.

Your posts aren't anything special, though they're certainly better than your standard one/two line shitposter the forum is plagued with, but they still all roughly follow the same pattern of a few sentences and don't really stand out which helps. Try actually take part in a discussion that's not just the standard dime a dozen sort of threads that get posted here. If you offer an original opinion that has clearly had some thought put into it then it doesn't seem that difficult to get merit from people.


This would make it 1000 times worse. Admins/devs are barely active here so the chances of you getting merit would be even slimmer.

No, it's probably just a badge to reward reporting. I wouldn't be against it having some extra privilidges though, but nothing too extravagant nor should it be used to bypass ranks.


I like the military chevrons. Maybe instead of the same but different colours you could just get an additional chevron each time you move up a rank like I believe they do in the military. Ie one chevron for 300 good reports, two chevrons for 1000 etc. More could easily be added as needed as well.




Haha. I think we should actually just use a meme for it:



Or Internet detectives:





Take your pick. Can anyone edit them to be a suitable size? Maybe they wouldn't work being so small.




Yeah, it shouldn't be like this. People might think the accounts are 'verified' and could give people a false sense of security.

It should be getting more strict. It's because of the Laissez-faire attitude that the forum has adopted that it has continued to decline in quality. This is a discussion forum and your freedom to post would not be effected, we're only suggesting that people should have to earn their right to be able to earn here, not just sign up with multiple accounts each just to take advantage of lazy ICO campaigns. The forum has been ruined by people who don't care at all about bitcoin other than they heard you can earn by alt coin bounties and people are flocking here in droves which gets worse as every month passes. Mix a lack of knowledge of bitcoin and crypto with a lack of English literacy and that's a recipe for disaster.

It looks like someone hacked his account, then they sold it. The person who then purchased it had probably just offered him the cash as hushmoney instead of having to return it. Can't blame the op for attempting to take it if the option was losing his account anyway, but looks like that's already happened.


It's just not required for whatever reason, but I think it should be. It's very rare that a forum or website doesn't require such verification. Anyone can use your email without, not to mention bots take advantage of this. Requiring email verification would be one more hoop for them to jump though.

What mistake did you make? Copy and paste? If so, accounts aren't unbanned for this.


Yeah, his last posts look to be copy and pastes, but can't find any direct hits upon first search. He's probably just changing some words around etc.

You can't have it both ways. Turn signatures/avatars off when you're browsing the forum via data if this is an issue, but not everyone surfs the forum on their mobiles and we shouldn't be bending over backwards to accommodate them. Also, I'm not sure what country you're in but unlimited data rolling one month contract deals over here costs as little as £25, but you don't need unlimited data to post on a message board.


Probably not. There are currently no plans to have any paid memberships, but I don't see the issue in having them alongside being able to rank up naturally. The benefits are win win. The forum takes in extra money and scumbag account farmers and hackers' profits are severely effected.

It's a good idea at heart but there are workarounds. You or anyone else is free to self-moderate any thread you like in however way you like, but the trouble is is that shitposters will just learn to not post in those specific ones self-modded by you and there's thousands of other threads that aren't that they can freely do so in. They can also even just create a duplicate non-self-modded thread for them to be able to post in as per the rules, though how many spammers are aware of this or will do it is likely minimal.

People have suggested awarding merits for helping out amongst other things before. The trouble with awarding some sorts of merits automatically is people will probably just abuse it to game the system. Farmers and sig spammers are already using bots to post, so they'll probably just create more spam bots just to report them with other bots and get the merits to rise through the ranks. Users do give out merit for finding things like merit abuse or sig campaign abuse etc so you can post your findings and hope they do, but merits shouldn't be expected or given out automatically for this and should be taken on a case by case basis.

I like the idea. I think reporters should be rewarded with something in some capacity, and I guess this is a little token for their extra work. I wonder is sig campaigns will pay extra for the badge? 

Have you thought about any other additional benefits to reporting? Maybe a bigger personal text or something else? I think the more rewards for reporting the better as it is largely a thankless task even though it helps a lot and we really could do with more people reporting things, but when there's little to no reward for it most people wont bother.


I like the idea of those ones. Some sort of little badge/shield or medal will work. Maybe just change the numbers to single figures like 1 2 or 3, or maybe just a plain one for 300, then 1k & 5k etc.

It doesn't matter really, but it should be at least one. The amounts should be staggered and get progressively higher (and harder) to get as you move up ranks. Ten merit to become a Member isn't much at all, and Junior could be between 1-5, but one is better than nothing and is at least some encouragement in that all you need is one meritable post to move up a rank. Member is then ten times more difficult. My suggestion is more about just stopping the truly terrible posters and bots from being able to achieve this rank by doing nothing other than making 30 posts over two activity periods.

Well that's because the vast majority of his posts are just to claim bounties, but he's probably now just realised that to move up ranks he needs merit.

Looking through his posts though I noticed that his English seemed to be a lot better:


And when that happens it's usually because it's a copy and paste:

I think I gave that guy a warning before about alt coin spam etc but can't be sure 100% (anyone know how to search your sent messages?). People really shouldn't be allowed to spam their own crappy sites there and it should be for notable articles only as it states in the description. Coindesk or someone's crappy rip-off site posting that bitcoin has gone up ten dollars doesn't or shouldn't count as 'notable'. Various suggestions have been made for that forum such as some clear guidelines on what is acceptable to be posted, and personally I think any pieces from crypto-based websites should be prohibited. To be honest though, I think that entire sub has served its purpose and should just be locked/archived now. It was originally created when any press mention was exiting, but now they're dime a dozen and the board is largely just used by sig spammers to get away with legalised copy and pasting and the owners of bitcoin based sites to promote themselves. Any notable article can just be posted in the main Bitcoin board as they do already where they will get much more attention anyway.

Bounty or anything alt coin related doesn't belong in that board so report them and they'll be moved. The trouble is, is there's no dedicated mod for that sub any more as MiningBuddy became inactive and was de-modded, and there's also no Alt Coin Beginners board so they'll all just be dumped in the main alt coin sub. I've requested a Alt Coin Beginners sub be created though along with a mod assigned for the bitcoin one so hopefully that will help.

What decade is this? The 90s? If somebody's computer can't handle a few gifs then they should either get a new computer or disable sigs. Besides, this wouldn't be for everybody and ideally only come with the costly premium rank which few people would likely have. You could disallow gifs anyway and just have jpegs or whatever, but images can't really be much more flashy than the current signatures here which are designed to catch your eye and emulate an image as much as possible. They're just bigger avatars at the end of the day and I haven't really seen any issues with those so I don't think an image banner allowed in the sigs of the few that have coughed up for the premium donator rank would be such an issue.


The forum is already a gold digging machine. We need to find ways to make that manageable before the only people left posting here are the gold diggers or signatures are disabled for everyone forever (and then those gold diggers who have ruined everything int first place will all leave in a mass exodus).